The ultimate Home gunsmithing Lathe

The Accurate Reloading Forums

This topic can be found at:
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9411043/m/787100265

__________________________________________________
The AR series of rounds, ridding the world of 7mm rem mags, one gun at a time.

31 October 2006, 05:27

butchlambert

Paul though I think they are the ultimate lathe, the bed is too short to chamber in the steady rest and too long in the headstock to chamber through the headstock. It is a wonderful lathe to make any part that you might want though.
Butch

31 October 2006, 05:30

22WRF

I think you can get them with a bit longer bed, and not everybody chambers in the headstock. Some still use the good old steady, although I don't know if this one even has a steady.

What I think is great about it is that it is single phase, has the hand controls, yet would be able to do any tapers you wanted on barrels and bolt handles and just about any other job that you could do in a lathe, and do it with extreme precision.

31 October 2006, 05:39

vapodog

quote:
yet would be able to do any tapers you wanted on barrels

Programming a taper is easy.....making the machine actually cut the taper is totally another thing.

You need a way of chatter control.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill

31 October 2006, 06:20

butchlambert

The Haas looks plenty long enough between centers, but a 30" bed on a 10EE is very rare. You may go a lifetime and only hear of a very few and the others are 20". I would give my left nut for a 10EE and a Haas milling center. I guess that I will have to be satisfied with my Clausing and Bridgeports.
Butch

31 October 2006, 06:46

Paul H

I don't every expect to get a Monarch, but there is dreaming. Just the shipping up here would kill me.

__________________________________________________
The AR series of rounds, ridding the world of 7mm rem mags, one gun at a time.

31 October 2006, 07:20

22WRF

Butch

boy, I don't know, a left nut is one hell of a lot to give for a 10EE and a milling center.

31 October 2006, 07:41

gunmaker

Just ordered a new Kent TRL-1340 today. I'm hoping IT will be the ultimate home gunsmithing lathe. Tiawan copy of Clausing. Should be short enough through the head & long enough in the bed. Got tired of getting by with an old 13" Southbend. Now if I could just get my 3 phase service installed......
gunmaker

gunmaker
------------------
James Anderson Metalsmith & Stockmaker
WEB SITE

More Pics on FLICKR

31 October 2006, 07:46

22WRF

Gunmaker

Thats the beauty of this Hass. It runs on both 3 phase and single phase!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Haas-TL-1-CNC-Manual-Toolroom-Lathe...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

31 October 2006, 08:10

butchlambert

Gunmaker, I think Mike Bryant said he had to do some real creative things to make his Kent work through the headstock. He likes the lathe though. A friend in Hempstead, Texas, Pete Pieper of Precision Barrel Work bought a m300 Harrison and what a machine. I don't see how he will ever pay for it chambering barrels.
22WRF, as old as I am, I might get a longer lasting kick from the machines.
Dwight Scott does Saeed's on his Emco Meier and it is a real nice lathe.
Butch

31 October 2006, 12:14

vapodog

quote:
Originally posted by 22WRF:
Gunmaker

Thats the beauty of this Hass. It runs on both 3 phase and single phase!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Haas-TL-1-CNC-Manual-Toolroom-Lathe...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Phase converters, both solid state and rotary, are commonplace and I use one on my surface grinder.

I wouldn't think this feature was a biggie.

31 October 2006, 15:08

eddieharren

Just had the pleasure of watching the armorer at USSS training facility turn, thread and short chamber a Schneider 30 x 10 barrel yesterday. He wrote the program and once the barrel was indicated in ( through the headstock, with a spider) all he had to do was change the tool holder. when the roughing reamer had finished, he final headspaced the chamber manually with the finish reamer. Quite an impressive machine. Will be a huge asset in high volume work.

31 October 2006, 16:58

jeffeosso

I'd have it, if LOTS cheaper...

I can not imagine ME paying 75%+ of NEW for a used tool, no matter how little used

jeffe

opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com

01 November 2006, 02:46

gzig5

I like the linear guide rails for ways. Wear em out and swap em out. But for that price you could wear out four or five 13x40's. Unless you are doing production work, making lots of the same part, I don't think CNC is the way to go. But, here I sit with my 12x36 Craftsman, so what do I know.

Rusty
We Band of Brothers!
DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

01 November 2006, 03:15

jeffeosso

Rusty,
You know, I get to drive the truck only during STC events and when I am driving SWMBO around... but she said I could get a pitpass whenever you decide these are just too wornout junk for your shop!

577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375

*we band of 45-70ers* (Founder)
Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder)

01 November 2006, 18:03

Rusty

Jeffe,
Tell ya what. I need 3 machinist, 2 months ago. Come on out to West Texas and after your day is done you can have all the machine time you need!

02 November 2006, 06:31

Fish30114

quote:
Originally posted by butchlambert:
Gunmaker, I think Mike Bryant said he had to do some real creative things to make his Kent work through the headstock. He likes the lathe though. A friend in Hempstead, Texas, Pete Pieper of Precision Barrel Work bought a m300 Harrison and what a machine. I don't see how he will ever pay for it chambering barrels.
22WRF, as old as I am, I might get a longer lasting kick from the machines.
Dwight Scott does Saeed's on his Emco Meier and it is a real nice lathe.
Butch

Butch, I just gotta ask, is the guys name really Pete(r) Pieper?

That's just classic!

02 November 2006, 06:39

butchlambert

Yes sir and he may have picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Pete doesn't build wood stocked Mausers, just very accurate hunting rifles and a few BR rifles. Go to his website and check out his Harrison lathe. I have a strong lead on a 10EE today for about $3000 and everything works on it. I might have to sell a rifle to buy it and hurry up on my 15x30 expansion on my shop.
Pete's website. www.precisionbarrelwork.com
Butch

02 November 2006, 07:43

JMJ888

quote:
Yes sir and he may have picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Pete doesn't build wood stocked Mausers, just very accurate hunting rifles and a few BR rifles. Go to his website and check out his Harrison lathe.

Butch,

Pete is a hell of a guy and he cut my 375 RUM chamber on the Harrison. I almost hate going out to his shop sometimes because I end up sitting out there for 4 or 5 hours just shooting the breeze. Truly a straight shooter (no pun intended) and about as nice as they come.